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Challenge Exercise: Exponential Chaos
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Challenge Exercise: Exponential Chaos

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/pellegrino/s9-e2
• Owner: pellegrino
• Created: 2011-09-13T21:39:52.000Z (about 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-03-25T05:00:22.000Z (over 3 years ago)
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Challenge Exercise: Exponential Chaos

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_written by: Shane Emmons_

My wife and I play a lot of board games. After getting beat, time and time

again, I decided it was time to find some games where we could work together.

After experimenting with a few, we quickly found our two favorites: Pandemic

and Forbidden Island. But now that we've played them so much, we're looking for

more. That's where you come in. 

During this assignment, you are going to create

your own cooperative board game using similar mechanics to those in Pandemic

and Forbidden Island. You should attempt to model the game and let a single

player play a few turns via the console. You don't need fancy graphics or

visual design.

## Examples of chaotic cooperative games with exponential elements

Below are some links to videos and/or rules for several games that you can draw

inspiration from.

Pandemic:

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JxMh1FP4b0

- http://www.zmangames.com/boardgames/pandemic.htm

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vaJhiht8NA&feature=fvst

Forbidden Island:

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYVOTPsWeN4

Ghost Stories: 

- http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/37046/ghost-stories

Red November: 

- http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36946/red-november

## Exercise Summary

- Design and model a game with the following features:

  - A map which can be represented as a graph structure

  - Rules that result in exponentially increasing danger as the game progresses

  - Resources which players must collect repeatedly in sets to win the game

  - Rules that create tension between slowing down immediate danger and

    collecting all the needed resources

- Create your own unique theme, don't copy the scenarios from the example games

- Implement at least a single player mode which demonstrates the game setup and the

  different actions that can take place on a turn.

## Submission Guidelines

If you plan to work on this exercise, you should fork this repository 

and push code early and often during the course. The course 

guidelines PDF explains the submission process in detail, but please 

contact an instructor if you have any questions.